Improvement in water-gages



C. F. HENIS.

Water Gage.

Patented Oct. 24, 1865.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-GASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,5Sl, dated October 24, 1865.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. HENIs, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Water-Gages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part ofthis specification.

My invention relates to, iirst, provisions for guarding or protecting the float-rod from liability to be bent or deflected by currents ot' steam or of water within the boiler or by sudden swaying ot' the latter, particularly in seagoing vessels; secondly, an improved form of magnet for water-gages.

Figure l is a partly sectionized elevation of a gage embodying Inyinvention. Fig. 2 shows the same applied to a vertical boiler. Fig. 3 exhibits the magnet detached.

A represents a common horizontal boiler. B is a hollow column attached vertically to the top of the boiler and supporting at its upper part a dial, C, havinga customarymagnetized needle. The lower portion of the interior of the column B is screw-threadedL to receive a correspondingly screw-threaded hollow stem,

E is a cylindrical cage orbox havinga screwthreaded neck, F, by which it is attached to the lower end ofthe stem D. The cage E is closed at top and bottom, respectively, by heads G and H, ot' which the lower head, H, is perforated, so as to enable the water to occupy the cage at the same level asin the boiler, but so as to prevent a too sudden tlling and emptying of the cage by any agitation of the boiler or of its contents.

My float I is composed of two hemisphercs of sheet metal, double-seamed and brazed together at j, and containing a hollow screwthreaded stay, J, whose endspass through and are riveted outside ofthe sphere. The stayJ receives a screw threaded rod, K, which rod passes upward through the hollow stem D and hollow column B, and is surmounted by a mag net, L, the same beinga cylindrical tube with a longitudinal slit or parting, l, down one side thereof.

The provision of the cage eft'ectually prevents the bending and distortion of the oatrod by violent currents ot' escaping steam and by the swashing to and fro ot' the water in a boiler, by which water-gages are so often rendered worse than useless, adding to, instead ot' lessening the danger of', explosions by giving false indications.

The form of magnet adopted by me and herein represented is one which I have found to retain magnetictbrceseveral times longerthan any other.

It will be seen that the screws D and K enable the vertical adjustment ot' the shell and of the Heat, respectively, while the nuts M and Nenable the retention of these parts to any particular adjustment.

I claim herein as new and of myinventionl. The combination and arrangement of the cage or guard E with the iloa-t I, for the purpose set forth. Y

2. The combination and arrangement of the screws l) and K and nutsM aud Nfor the vertical adjustment ot' the cage and oat, respectively.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

CHARLES F. HENIS.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, J AMES H. LAYMAN. 

